The first time University of Virginia alumnus Jeff Walker meditated, it was on Grounds. More than four decades later, the site of his first meditation is home to the Contemplative Sciences Center, ...

Cloudy skies didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of University of Virginia leaders and guests Friday morning as they celebrated the groundbreaking of the Contemplative Commons in person and gave several ...

An April 5 event at the John Paul Jones Arena featuring music from Zac Brown Band and Maggie Rogers and a performance by stand-up comedian Joe Zimmerman will celebrate the UVA Contemplative Sciences ...

The University of Virginia will celebrate the groundbreaking of the Contemplative Commons with an on-site ceremony on Friday at 10 a.m. on the former Dell basketball courts adjacent to Bavaro Hall.

A: Attentiveness (being deep into the act) and mindfulness (being deep into a thought) based techniques to better understand and train the mind for expand one’s awareness by fostering and nuturing ...

“Contemplative studies satisfies an urge that everyone has — to investigate what it means to be experiencing, to be alive,” said Henry Langton ’16, one of the first Brown students who will officially ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WRIC) – In celebration of the new Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia (UVA), the Zac Brown Band is set to perform with a special guest. The university ...

The recent International Symposium for Contemplative Studies (ISCS), held in Denver, opened with a guided meditation-turned-keynote address by mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn, sitting cross-legged ...

Three times last week, between classes in neuropharmacology, neural systems and journalism, Brown University junior Henry Langton changed into sweatpants, sat with dozens of classmates on cushions in ...